01.
This is Ronnie Kuhlmann, the bleak emperor of bodybuilding after the glory, who suffers from injuries and pain every day.
Bodybuilder Ronnie was desolate after his glory, and he endured pain every day and relied on medication to relieve the pain
He was once a spiritual totem in the field of bodybuilding and was hailed as "the strongest man on earth".
His phrase "Yebatti! LeviBey! ", to this day, is still inspiring fitness enthusiasts to challenge the limits of sports.
(Original: Yeah Buddy!) Light Weight Baby ！ Chinese translation: Hey old iron! Baby is too light! ）
However, today's Ronnie Kuhlman, without the majesty of the past, has to lie on the hospital bed to recuperate.
According to Ronnie himself, if the pain is at level 10, he himself is suffering from levels 8-9 every day.
For this reason, he had to rely on painkillers to relieve his discomfort.
In fact, it is only by taking the medicine every 3-4 hours that it will work for him.
The question is, why is this happening?
First of all, he trained too hard.
Ronnie Kuhlman is known to love overweight training, he can complete squats over 855 pounds, leg lifts 2500 pounds 8 times, front squats 585 pounds 6 times, hard pull 800 pounds, bench press 495 pounds...
800 pounds of squat 2 times such a thing is difficult to imagine in the average bodybuilder, but it is only a pity for Ronnie, because he still wants to squat for the third time.
Of course, the effect of overweight training is also remarkable, and he uses this to gain muscle and maintain the explosive power of each muscle.
However, at the same time, bones, muscles, joints, etc. suffered huge damage.
To this end, he performed more than a dozen surgeries in 5 years and spent almost all the competition prize money.
This is the same as the phenomenon of athletes in other fields retiring from the country and getting injured.
While they challenge the limits of their physiology, they are also causing irreparable harm to the body.
However, the reason why this strongest man on the surface finally became ill was that he took too many medicines.
This drug, most commonly an "anabolic steroid," is designed to prompt rapid changes in bodybuilders' body shapes.
Ronnie himself had this to say:
Ronnie was talented and trained diligently before taking the pill, but his best result in the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding Contest was 3rd. (Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding Contest abbreviated as Orsay)
Also often hovered outside the five.
Repeated failures have exhausted the macho man who is training in a humble gym in Texas.
In constant self-doubt, Ronnie Kuhlman underwent a major shift in perception:
Since the players at the top of the line are all taking medicine to get results, why don't they do it?
Sure enough, after taking the medicine, Ronnie was furious.
Between 1998 and 2005, he set a record for eight consecutive Orsay titles.
As a result, he has become the absolute king in the field of bodybuilding and the number one in history.
It was Ronnie's choice, but he was also only practicing the basic philosophy of the bodybuilding field.
02.
Some people may say that even if they take medicine, they can not grow muscles while lying down, or they still need extreme self-discipline and a lot of training, so their stories are still inspirational and touching.
These words are not true.
Even with medication, it takes a lot of training and self-discipline to win the championship, which is right.
But there is a counterintuitive knowledge that as long as you take medicine, you can really lie down and grow muscles.
In 1996, a paper published in the New England Medical Weekly did related experiments.
The researchers divided more than forty men into four groups: those who took medicine and trained, those who took medicine but did not train, those who did not take medicine but trained, and those who neither took medicine nor trained.
Experiments began, with people taking the pills being injected with 600 milligrams of the drug a week, and those who did not take the pills being given a placebo.
The training programs are squats and bench presses.
After 10 weeks, two types of results came out about increasing muscle content and boosting muscle strength.
The first is the data on the increase in muscle content:
People who took medicine and trained increased by 5.89 kg of pure muscle;
People who take medicine but do not train, increased by 2.99 kg of pure muscle;
People who do not take medicine but train, increased by 1.99 kg of pure muscle;
People who neither take medicine nor train, increase 0 kg of pure muscle.
The results were obvious, as long as the medicine was used, lying down could grow muscles, and it would grow more than the people who trained.
Group experiments also produced data on improving muscle strength:
For people who take medicine and train, the strength of barbell bench press increased by 22kg, and the strength of squats increased by 38kg;
For people who take medicine but do not train, the strength of barbell bench press increases by 9 kg, and the strength of squats increases by 13 kg;
For people who do not take medicine but train, the strength of barbell bench press increases by 10 kg, and the strength of squats increases by 25 kg.
People who do not take medicine and do not train have basically no change in strength.
Although as long as you take medicine, lying down can increase strength.
But compared to muscle mass, the increase in strength of people who only take medicine and do not train is less obvious.
This also explains why some drugged "big muscle bullies" do not have the strength to match their body size.
At this time, we can further simplify this experiment to compare the difference between taking medicine and training in the simplest and most crude way.
These are the two groups circled in the following figure: people who take medicine but do not train, and people who do not take medicine but train.
The growth data of the pill group on the three indicators of lean body mass, triceps area and quadriceps area were significantly stronger than those in the training group.
It can be seen that as long as you take medicine, you can significantly increase muscle, and the effect is better than training.
In addition, there is another piece of information to pay attention to, that is, the amount of 600 mg is very small for the real medicine players.
If it is equivalent to a grain of rice, then the amount of medicine players eat in their careers may be a rice cooker, or a bag of rice.
According to this speculation, in fact, the drug can be very fast and accurate for the player's muscle gain.
But even so, the contestants are still some way from a mutant form with exploded shoulders and 3D textured muscle lines.
Because the big muscles are not "dry" enough.
03.
"Big and dry muscle" is also an aesthetic that fitness enthusiasts frantically pursue, but it is actually difficult.
In fact, the natural bodybuilders at the competitive level are not exaggerated in their figure on stage.
In the non-season, if they are randomly captured and not deliberately showed muscles, they look more like "stronger people", which completely belong to the category of normal humans.
Or further, a person has a lot of muscle but not a lot of body fat, such as the following guys:
He looks fat, has a lot of muscles on his body, has a large dimension, but has high body fat, which is also possible.
But like the bodybuilding champion, the muscle dimension is huge but the body fat is low enough to draw wire, which is very, very difficult.
Because strictly speaking, we can't gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.
Muscle gain requires a calorie surplus, while fat loss requires a calorie gap.
Therefore, the common practice is to eat more muscle during the muscle gain period, and then reduce the fat before the game to reduce the muscle.
However, in the process of fat loss, many people will lose most of the muscles that have worked hard during the muscle gain period, which is a collapse.
Because the human metabolic system is not good at dual-task operation, it is not good at gaining muscle while losing fat, it prefers to increase muscle while gaining fat, and losing muscle while losing fat.
The regularity of this body is a dilemma for the amount of bodybuilding exercise, so that many people believe that you can only choose one to increase muscle and lose fat. (There are now some more advanced theories that argue that it can be done simultaneously.) ）
To this end, athletes have to carry out stricter dietary control and training.
Strict dietary controls are carried out, which is very painful for some people.
However, despite this self-discipline, after the fat loss period, they will still lose muscles, and they will not lose a little or two.
This makes fitness enthusiasts who cherish every gram of their muscles painful and helpless.
For masters, often only through the "ascetic" general way, more than ten years of accumulation of muscles, in order to create a large and brushed top figure.
And it also requires a certain talent.
For more ordinary people, not only can it not be done, but also a soul will ask itself - I practice so fiercely, eat so strictly, why do I seem to be wandering in the same place?
Fortunately, at this time, taking medicine can solve this problem.
Steroids as drugs, similar to synthetic male sex hormones, are designed to boost testosterone levels, allowing a person to gain muscle while protecting muscle fibers from damage and helping to minimize body fat.
Really how fast it is to save.
For the combined effect, please see the comparison picture.
Natural bodybuilders who do not take medicine, in front of the people who take medicine, are like chickens meeting eagles, and the gap is huge.
If it is a competition in the same group, the judges are unlikely to give the natural fitness players a high score, because the professional bodybuilders have almost twice the dimension of theirs.
In fact, even the top natural bodybuilders cannot be compared with the last professional bodybuilders who take medicine.
Of course, the above two groups of players, with an average of more than ten years of training experience, their figures are not fast, but through years of training accumulation.
But in the face of almost universal steroids, everything gap can be smoothed out.
If you want to gain muscle quickly, eat him. If you want to lose fat effectively, eat it.
And if you want to speed up creatine recovery and shorten your rest time, you can also eat it.
One of the great functions of drugs such as steroids is to reduce the fatigue of training.
This means that you can practice five or six times a week, practice more, and recover faster, as if perpetually motion machine.
The benefits of steroids are simply too much.
For bodybuilders who want to take shortcuts, it is nothing less than a must-have medicine for going out.
04.
Later, you used it for me, and everyone used it together.
After all, "mutants" can always easily pick up a lot of medals and hold a large number of bonuses and sponsorships.
Therefore, when the older generation of players appear in the image of giant beasts and frequently create explosive life postures, the younger generation naturally follows suit and still continues its aesthetic orientation.
Who let these "old cannons" sitting on the judges' bench determine their results.
This was the case in the nineties.
This will continue to be the case after the new millennium.
This will remain the case in 2020.
Orsay hasn't changed its penchant for oversized muscles for decades.
In this sense, Orsay is also subtly carrying forward the culture of taking medicine.
However, people who know a little about this have found a major hidden feature of these incomparably strong people, that is, the void.
For example, people who take medicine cannot lift weights that match the volume of muscles, such as taking medicine to make people get old and lose their hair quickly.
For example, people who take medicine are not as heavy as they seem because their muscles are not strong enough.
However, these are not absolute features.
If you want to tell if they're taking their medication, the most rigorous argument is the FFMI index.
The Fat Free Mass Index (FFMI), also known as the Fat-Free Weight Index, is a benchmark for measuring the amount of lean muscle.
For many people who do not take drugs, the FFMI index limit is 26.
However, the FFMI index of the Olympian champions all exceeded the standard, indicating that they used "technology".
For example, Ronnie Kuhlman's FFMI index after taking medicine even reached 39.72, and the FFMI index of another bodybuilding historical king, Lee Hani, also reached 31.87.
Almost whoever has the medicine is strong will stand on the highest podium.
Professional bodybuilding seems to be human beings challenging the limits of the body, but rather challenging the limits of pharmaceutical technology.
This ethos also continued in South Korea.
Kim Dong-hyun, a front-line player in South Korea's bodybuilding industry, has asserted that bodybuilders use steroids at 98%.
He came forward to say that he had used the drug for 7 years and won many national championships through it.
This ethos has also continued in our country.
The use of stimulants and banned drugs in the field of bodybuilding has dominated the list of treatment results published by China's Anti-Doping Center for many years.
Taking a large number of hormone drugs has long become an unspoken rule in the bodybuilding industry, and even a "golden rule".
But few players are willing to openly admit that they have taken medicine, otherwise they will collapse and their interests will be greatly damaged.
But using the most extensive way of cheating to achieve the vigorous aesthetics of the body is still very difficult for ordinary people to understand.
They sarcastically said of this dishonesty:
"The bodybuilders at the Olympiad are all taking medicine! What bodybuilding contests? It sounds good to call it a bodybuilding contest, but it is actually a medicine contest! ”
"If bodybuilding competitions are banned, it's not bodybuilding."
05.
Originally, this is a matter in professional circles, and we ordinary people can just look at the hilarity.
But when the unspoken rules of taking medicine are used by some Internet celebrity fitness bloggers, they become closely related to us.
Some internet celebrity fitness bloggers do look dry and big, but judging from their daily lives, they are neither self-disciplined (eat more) training nor scientific.
Although Ronnie uses drugs, he is trying to challenge the limits of humanity, and he also admits to using drugs himself.
What are these internet celebrity fitness bloggers denying while taking drugs?
What about the most basic honesty?
Then they teach people fitness online and offline, compare with people, and charge conditional fees to make fitness plans for people.
However, because they are the group of people who do C medicine, their training capacity is much larger than that of the average person.
Ordinary people who use their training program without medication not only cannot practice like that, but also are prone to injury.
Then you go to them again, and they'll tell you that you're not working hard enough or that you're not talented.
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What's more, some fitness boot camps teach people how to use medicine.
What they teach you is how to get on technology, how to do C, where to buy these steroids that are supposed to be contraband.
The method is also simple, encouraging you to worship the master, spend tens of thousands, 100,000 to buy the so-called exclusive cheats.
What you receive is certainly not a strict and perverted training method, but a hormonal drug.
For several months, I basically don't have to train much, just take medicine regularly.
Such hormonal drugs must, of course, be "imported".
Such a drug would have to be added to ten thousand yuan to be "shipped."
Lure you into the trap step by step.
If you take your medication, they will also recommend that you do anti-female.
As for how to take anti-estrogen drugs, they also have a professional team and agent dealers responsible.
It gives the impression that they are too professional, one-stop service, so that you can get big and dry muscles when you lie down.
But in fact, it is just to collect money from you again and again, and sell you all kinds of illegal drugs again and again.
06.
These behaviors are undoubtedly harmful to the human body.
The general situation is shown in the following figure.
One side effect is that we deform our bodies.
For example, deltoid valgus.
Natural fitness athletes generally have difficulty achieving the effect of valgus deltoid muscles, and it is often the drugged athletes who have a 3D shape.
Take buffalo tripe, for example.
Their bellies were big and bulging, like they were pregnant in June.
This is actually the result of the enlargement of internal organs after abusing needles and taking medicines, and it does not look beautiful at all.
Like acne and pimples.
(There is no picture here, because I am afraid that everyone will not be able to eat after watching it.) ）
For example, nipple feminization.
In 2020, in the Chengdu Olympiad College Students Fitness Group Competition, the scene of the participants' general nipple femininity was emotional, and college students also had money to join the ranks of science and technology players.
But one of the main reasons that people attacked after the news came out was that they only took medicine, lacked strict training and diet management, and came out of the body far from being thick and dense.
Just look at the difference between them and the pros.
Nipple feminization is not only a change in morphology, but also a health hazard.
Every year in Sweden, more than 100 male bodybuilders need to have their breasts removed to alleviate the consequences.
If you don't want to be deceived, fans can judge which bloggers are lying based on the physical characteristics of the above medicine.
See if they are natural people, or medicine jars.
There is also a side effect, which is that it will endanger our health and longevity.
One hazard for men is testicular atrophy and weakening of sexual capacity.
In a passage, the medicine player has to rely on Viagra to ensure sexual ability.
The harm for women is the emergence of masculine traits.
These include a long beard, a thicker voice, rougher skin, and more.
In addition, for drug takers, the harm also includes mental illness such as mania and depression.
Of course, going further afield, the ultimate harm of anabolic steroids is to shorten lifespan.
A follow-up survey of nearly 600 bodybuilders (who had a history of medication and competed in professional bodybuilding competitions between 1948 and 2014) showed that bodybuilders who used drugs for a long time had a 34 percent higher mortality rate than the average person, and the average age of deceased bodybuilders was 47.7 years.
Specifically, you can look at the situation of the deceased celebrities:
Long Tefel died of liver failure at the age of 45;
Charles Douri died of heart hypertrophy at the age of 44;
Scott died of kidney failure at the age of 30;
Robert Ben Eventure died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 30.
The list is long and will not be listed again.
The causes of death of famous players vary, but the source is steroids.
In short, taking too much medicine during fitness and bodybuilding is tantamount to reducing life expectancy.
Such is the case with the giant arm brother Rich Piana.
In order to make his arm stronger, he frantically injected drugs and continued to inject for more than twenty years.
In the end, the body could not bear it, and unfortunately died.
At this time, it is meaningful to look at what Brother Giant Arm said before he died:
In other words, all the gifts given by fate have already been secretly marked with prices.
Such a price, I don't know if ordinary people are full of dissatisfaction, is it appropriate?
Fitness is a global trend, health is a world's common pursuit, in these processes, we pursue faster, higher and stronger, of course, it is good.
But the body that takes the medicine is always a "rented body shape" that will one day make you pay more interest.
In short, when you work out, ask yourself what you are working out for.
Some fitness bloggers use drugs to change their destiny, because only by taking drugs can they quickly get an exaggerated good figure, earn money, and live a good life.
But if you're only working out for your health, then I advise you not to take medication.
Ordinary people still need to resist abnormal practices, including some abnormal aesthetics.
They deliberately go to the needle and take the medicine in order to make the body perverted.
Someone let their trapezius muscles almost wrap around their necks.
Some people fill their muscles by injecting gelatin.
There is also an Internet celebrity who injects water muscle brothers and frantically injects medicine into the arm to realize the dream of Popeye.
There are so many cases, too crazy, and it looks disgusting.
They all take the initiative to inject themselves with drugs to make the muscles strange.
The aim is to attract attention.
A thousand words come together, fitness should bring the body closer to health, not farther.
Here are some common misconceptions clarified in the comments section:
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